The result of the EU referendum shows a disconnect between the British people and the nation's political leaders, Lord Mandelson has said.

Speaking on ITV's Good Morning Britain, the Labour peer and remain campaigner said the Brexit result reveals that both Conservative and Labour politicians are "not trusted" by the public and "do not have the connection that they thought they had".

People do feel angry...just as they feel the austerity policies that have been pursued by the Conservative government have not been fair in their impact on the country as a whole, they also feel that the Labour Party leadership is remote from them.

– Lord Mandelson

Lord Mandelson said that the Labour Party must come to terms with the result of the referendum and called on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to "reflect" on his role in the remain campaign, adding that there is a "question mark about his competence".

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Yvette Cooper and Liz Kendall have denied reports that Lord Mandelson tried to persuade the three mainstream Labour leadership candidates to quit the leadership contest and force the party to stop the election.

The former Business Secretary and EU Commissioner told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:

"I think it will be seen over time as quite a game-changer for Ed Miliband. I think he's shown judgment and courage. I think he's gone out and made the political weather on a major issue and I think as a result it will strengthen him and help him win the next election."

However, the Labour peer admitted that for most voters Europe was "not the major deciding issue for them when it comes to deciding how they're going to vote in a general election".

Ed Miliband should hold his nerve and not be "dragged along by the Ukip bandwagon" on Britain's membership of the European Union, former Labour minister and ex-European Commissioner Lord Mandelson told ITV News.

The Labour leader previously said he was against holding an in-out referendum under the terms proposed by Prime Minister David Cameron.

Lord Mandelson told Libby Wiener: "I think Ed Miliband is right to stand his ground but also to say that if there is in the future a need for, circumstances arising that require a referendum, then of course a Labour government would agree to that and put it to the British people".

Lord Mandelson has said the Labour party would be "foolhardy" to offer any sort of in/out referendum on the EU - but said one might be needed to see if the public wanted to join a reformed single currency.

The former cabinet minister and EU trade commissioner said he did not believe David Cameron would commit to a public vote because for the Tories it would spell "political suicide by splitting them from top to tail.

"I do not think the Labour Party would be so foolhardy as to have a 'clear the air' referendum," he said.

But in five to 10 years, if the eurozone was reformed and there was a "gravitational pull of power, decision making and policy" among the member states that belonged to it, voters might want to "reconsider whether we want to join the core".

"It will not be for government or a political party or a combination of political parties to make that decision; it will be one for the British people," he added.

Former EU commissioner Lord Mandelson told the BBC Radio 4 Today programme that he expected Mr Hollande and Mrs Merkel to mount a renewed push for greater EU integration in order to shore up the eurozone.

I think we are going to see the eurozone yet further challenged very seriously and I think that what you will see both from France and from Germany is a very united response.

I think that both from Mr Hollande and Mrs Merkel you are going to see the top priority being stopping the eurozone from splitting.

I think that you will see both of them saying that everything that needs to be done to save the whole post war settlement in Europe, as well as the euro, will require more European integration, not less. It will require more Europe, not less.